False evidence

Chapter 363 Three Things

As Grandpa and Erpang exchanged questions and answers, I listened with a mix of tension and confusion.

I asked Erpang, "When did you learn how to diagnose a patient?"

Erpang scratched his head and chuckled, "Actually, there's something I've wanted to tell you for a while, but Master Yao wouldn't let me. The year before last, you didn't come back for the New Year, and Master Yao got drunk and took me as his apprentice."

Seeing that I was stunned and speechless, Erpang asked cautiously, "Are you angry?"

"What's he getting angry about!" Grandpa glared at me. "He's not even fit to take people to the doctor!"

My mind raced, and I glanced sideways at Erpang: "My grandpa's real name is Feng Jiu..."

Erpang said somewhat nervously, "I didn't want to take advantage of you, but Master Yao said that from now on, whenever I talk to outsiders, I'll call myself Crazy Nine, the Crazy one."

"Li Si, Luo Liu... Feng Jiu?"

I looked at the old man thoughtfully.

Grandpa was also glancing at me sideways, and mumbled, "You've changed. You've become more and more of a blabbermouth."

I nodded and asked, "After taking this medicine, how long can your granddaughter-in-law live?"

"The 100-day period."

Grandpa rubbed his nose, sat down at the table, and picked up his pipe, which he had used for decades.

Just as I was about to step forward, Erpang rushed over first, filled his bowl with tobacco leaves, and lit a match.

I stared blankly at the flickering light of the pipe bowl.

The old man puffed on his cigarette, saying nothing more.

"Hey!" Eggy suddenly exclaimed, jumped up, and turned to me, asking, "Do fish have eyelids? I saw this fish wink at me!"

The old man glanced at me, coughed, and said, "This is no ordinary carp; it's a dragon-headed carp, a dragon's offspring."

Yan Fengwei swallowed hard: "Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground."

Pidan refilled the old man's teacup and stood beside him cautiously, asking, "Sir, are there really dragons in the world?"

The old man chuckled: "Little girl, you're just like Xiao Sanzi, you can be so subtle and clever that you don't let anyone see through you!"

He tapped his pipe on the table, casually set it aside, and said to the preserved egg with great interest:

"You're Xiao Sanzi's wife, and there are no outsiders here, so there's no need to hold back. Do real dragons exist in this world? We haven't seen them, so we can't just talk nonsense. The idea of ​​dragon offspring is just a legend."

Come here, girl, let me tell you something. It's a fact that Xiao Sanzi became a tomb raider for you, going down into the underwater tomb of Consort Li, which caused three Yin organs to enter his body, almost costing him his life.

That young Luo Liu was quite skilled, but like Lao Luo, he was too arrogant and self-confident. He used acupuncture to make Xiao Sanzi's soul leave his body, leaving only the poison of the three Yin meridians in his body.

Xiao Sanzi's primordial spirit eagerly ran to the place where the dragon head was undergoing tribulation, in order to lure heavenly lightning and use the power of thunder and fire to burn away the three yin elements of water, earth, and man.

Xiao Luo used the six methods correctly, but he never expected that the spirit that had possessed Xiao Sanzi was not a woman's ghost, but a eunuch.

Although eunuchs are physically disabled, they served the imperial family in life, so after death, in addition to carrying an ominous aura, they also embody the arrogance of imperial power. It's not so easy to remove their malevolent influence.

However, it's important to understand that the emperors before King Zhou of Shang were considered human kings, on par with heaven and earth. After King Zhou, the emperors were simply called "Sons of Heaven." This represents a significant demotion in status.

As for that dragon-headed creature, to have developed its current extraordinary appearance, it must have lived for over a hundred years. Regardless of whether it is truly a dragon's offspring, it is a creation of heaven and earth that gave it the appearance of a dragon.

Burying the dragon's whiskers into the young eunuch's belly is like planting the dragon's root in his heart; placing the dragon's head on his head is comparable to the emperor's supreme presence. No matter how vicious the eunuch's malevolent energy is, how could he withstand the dragon's might?

"Ah."

Pidan nodded, but winked at me. Clearly, she was just as confused as I was.

When I saw the old man again this time, I felt like he was a completely different person. He couldn't even speak human language anymore.

When I'm at home, I talk a lot of nonsense with my grandpa. When I bring up what I think are important matters, he either ignores me or tells me to "stop talking nonsense."

I have a 'shadow', so I winked at the preserved egg again.

Do you think I'm blind?

Grandpa glared at me fiercely.

"Tsk, the young couple are exchanging glances, why are you meddling? Just pretend you don't see anything!"

The old man clicked his tongue and said, "Oh, brat, you've got some nerve, huh? Daring to talk back to me?"

I said, "You said there are no outsiders here, we... we just laugh and cough while we eat, don't we?"

"Get lost! Bah!"

Grandpa spat at me, then lit another pipe. "Pfft... Little Sanzi, and that guy, the bald-headed one, I have something to tell you."

Yan Fengwei quickly stepped forward: "Please speak."

I mumbled, "Where I live now, there's a cemetery in front. If you want to have a grave erected, it starts at 2,800... that's an insider price, okay? Also, we have to abide by the law; you'll have to be cremated. Otherwise, that little pit won't be big enough for you..."

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Pidan and Pidan's mom both poked my head at the same time.

"Don't provoke him! I like hearing that!"

Grandpa shoved his smoking pipe right in front of my eyes: "You haven't changed your ways, you're still my adopted grandson! If you have, we won't be friends anymore."

Three things!

The old man leaned back in his chair. "First, I need to come to your place. Where I'll stay, my grandson, you arrange that for me. Second, prepare a generous gift for me, worth over ten thousand taels of gold!"

Yan Fengwei was a little confused, but he reacted quickly and said, "No problem, but who do you want to give it to? Is it gold, silver, or jade and antiques?"

"You misheard, 'ten thousand gold'—that's the price of ten thousand taels of gold."

The old man put away his pipe and pointed to the bucket. "Sanzi, this dragon-head hairpin is no ordinary thing. I've guarded it for over twenty years. I was originally going to give it away as a gift, but now it's being used on you and your wife. You have to compensate me."

I stared at the old man for a moment, then turned up the hood of my jacket and pulled it over my head, wrapped it around my collar, and put my thumb to my lips and sucked on it.

"I can't do it, I'm poor! Just throw me back the way you carried me here!"

"Your shamelessness is just like mine when I was young. If I weren't an old man without any children, I would really think you were my grandson!"

Grandpa looked at me with a half-smile and said, "Stop talking nonsense. Our family is gone, and so is my will to fight. What I'm talking about now is serious business."

I nodded: "I'll buy you a burial plot as soon as we get home."

"Need not."

The old man waved his hand, "I think I'm still alright, I can live a little longer. You just have to find me a really good gift, something truly worth the price of this dragon-head hairpin. And, thirdly..."

He turned to Yan Fengwei, pursed his lips, and said, "I heard from Xiao Fan's mother that you're in the antique business, right? I'm asking you, have you ever heard of a book called—'The Treasures of the Earth and the Wonders of Clouds'?"

(End of this chapter)